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- Seamless Communication: Simplicity, Efficiency, and Transparency Achieved Through Integrated Wireline and Wireless Services
- Reduce costs, minimize complexity and improve worker productivity by integrating your wireline and wireless services. Respected consulting firm IDC examines the benefits, challenges and the choices available today that will allow you to successfully bridge your wireless and wireline services. Find out how you can simplify...
- White papers 2009-11-20
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
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- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'
- Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with the launch of Research in Motion's Storm 2 on Wednesday, two Motorola Android devices and 12 other handsets....
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Bells give net neutrality the McCain two-step
- For over a century the Bells have been masters of the bureaucratic game. Their failure in the Bell break-up, which delivered huge profits to investors, only taught them to fight harder. So after putting themselves together like the broom in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," of course they're going...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- How Verizon might ruin Android
- Okay Dana - how might Verizon ruin Android?By not actually writing an answer to the posited headline, it sure appears to me that you are trying to get comments from people like me to write your article for you. It might work a little better if you actually posited an...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Verizon reshuffles units as operating chief retires
- Verizon is reshuffling its units as chief operating officer ahead of the retirement of chief operating officer Dennis Strigl. Among the moving parts statement: Verizon's two wireline businesses---Verizon Telecom and Verizon Business---will become one unit Verizon Wireline. The aim will be to optimize performance....
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Securing IP Networks
- As Fixed Mobile Convergence FMC is opening the door to a wealth of new opportunities for service providers and their customers, it also ushers in a number of potential security flaws that can be exploited. These security concerns are compounded by the fact that IP and open source technologies are...
- Webcasts 2009-09-03
- TELUS Improves Compliance and Strengthens Security With the RSA enVision Platform
- TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $9.7 billion of annual revenue and 11.6 million customer connections including 6.1 million wireless subscribers, 4.2 million wireline network access lines and 1.2 million Internet subscribers. The challenge was to comply with Payment Card Industry PCI security standards regulation by...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Verizon keeps wireless churn lead in second quarter; Palm Pre coming 2010
- Verizon delivered second quarter results Monday that were a bit better than expectations, but the company added fewer net wireless customers than some analysts expected. Â Verizon's wireless churn rate continues to lead the industry. In addition, Verizon also confirmed that it will add the Palm Pre to its lineup early...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- AT&T activates 2.4 million iPhones; Second quarter tops estimates
- Updated: AT&T's second quarter earnings were better than expected courtesy of a strong launch of Apple's iPhone 3GS. In the second quarter, AT&T activated 2.4 million iPhones, up 29 percent from a year ago and up 31.8 percent from the first quarter. Meanwhile, AT&T churn fell to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Sprint outsources network maintenance and operations to Ericsson
- Sprint on Thursday said it would outsource its network to Ericsson in a seven-year deal valued at $4.5 billion to $5 billion. The deal (statement, Techmeme)Â allows Sprint to offload the costs associated with running its network. Sprint will transfer 6,000 employees to Ericsson. Ericsson will now handle...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Key Energy Services Streamlines Operations With Integrated Field Service and Billing Solution
- Key Energy Services, Inc. is one of the largest rig-based well service companies in United States. The company provides oilfield services including well servicing, pressure pumping, fishing and rental tools, electric wireline and other oilfield services. To pull together a company-wide view of the business, each field office had to...
- Case studies 2009-06-29
- Seamless Communications: Simplicity, Efficiency, and Transparency Achieved Through Integrated Wireline and Wireless Services
- As enterprises recognize the strategic importance of enabling their remote and/or mobile workforce with mobility solutions, they need to determine how to best extend their existing wireline services into the mobile environment. Today, many service providers offer converged solutions that help businesses bring together their office-based telecom solution with their...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- News to know: IBM; SAP; Microsoft; Sarbanes-Oxley; EMC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: IBM rolls out the 'Smart Cube' with app market: Think enterprise iPod-iTunes combo Joe McKendrick: Goodbye, SOX? AP: Supreme Court to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)King Canute Must DieI am persuaded by the ideas generally found in OPLAN discussions:1. The 5 major industrial revolutions in the last 200 years have all followed the same pattern: the previous incumbents have been swept away having...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)
- Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Optimizing the branch: Mobilizing IT
- Writing on technologies for the branch office often times places me across the domains of mobility and non-mobile network infrastructure. Increasingly, in client inquiry calls, the question of "how do I optimize my branch office infrastructure" comes up and takes many forms. I'll attempt to address the most common of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- AT&T: First quarter earnings shine; 1.6 million iPhones activated
- AT&T on Wednesday delivered first quarter net income of $3.1 billion, or 53 cents a share, on revenue of $30.6 billion. That tally handily topped Wall Street estimates. Meanwhile, AT&T said it activated 1.6 million iPhones in the quarter. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 48 cents...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Capture, Retain, and Analyze CDRs and IPDRs With Maximum Efficiency and Performance
- Massive Call Detail Record CDR and IP Data Record IPDR volumes create some serious challenges. Wireline, wireless, and internet service providers must not only collect and store billions of CDRs and other event records, but they must also be able to run complex queries to identify and extract specific records...
- Webcasts 2009-03-10
- Seamless Communication: Simplicity, Efficiency, and Transparency Achieved Through Integrated Wireline and Wireless Services
- This paper provides analysis of the convergence between wireline and wireless technologies and the opportunities this evolution offers to enterprises looking to reduce costs, minimize complexity, and improve worker productivity. The document discusses the high-level trends around Fixed-Mobile Convergence FMC as well as the opportunities and challenges that this market...
- White papers 2009-03-01
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